Enrollment numbers are in, and despite disastrous tech problems early on, the Affordable Care Act has cleared its first crucial hurdle.Though many procrastinated, 7.1 million people signed up for private health plans by last week's initial deadline, slightly more than the administration originally projected. And that's good news, since the nation as a whole will benefit if the...

Of course it is, but the MSM (most of them) are celebrating Obama's "Mission Accomplished" with no apparent recollection of the last president who celebrated too early.

It still remains that nothing Obama says can be regarded as the truth.

That's just how he rolls...

Here's the problem: the lack of real data. How many people signed up that didn't already have coverage, but had their coverage cancelled? How many people that signed up that actually have paid for their policies? 7 million, or whatever that number is, is not nearly enough to consider this anywhere near a success. Not to mention that Obama has unilaterally invalidated the law by postponing the requirements for people to comply. This whole thing is a joke. The relatively healthy people that are supposed to sign up to spread the risk aren't doing it, and because of Obama, they wont be required to. Of course, the media has no intention of holding Obama's feet to the fire because they have lost all credibility, especially when it comes to reporting the facts. They have become cheerleaders for our worthless president, and do not have the guts to report the truth. Our country is in real trouble.

Of course it is, but the MSM (most of them) are celebrating Obama's "Mission Accomplished" with no apparent recollection of the last president who celebrated too early.

It still remains that nothing Obama says can be regarded as the truth.

That's just how he rolls...

Here's the problem: the lack of real data. How many people signed up that didn't already have coverage, but had their coverage cancelled? How many people that signed up that actually have paid for their policies? 7 million, or whatever that number is, is not nearly enough to consider this anywhere near a success. Not to mention that Obama has unilaterally invalidated the law by postponing the requirements for people to comply. This whole thing is a joke. The relatively healthy people that are supposed to sign up to spread the risk aren't doing it, and because of Obama, they wont be required to. Of course, the media has no intention of holding Obama's feet to the fire because they have lost all credibility, especially when it comes to reporting the facts. They have become cheerleaders for our worthless president, and do not have the guts to report the truth. Our country is in real trouble.

The next announcement from the Liar-in-Chief will be the insurance industry tax-payer-funded bailout, since the mechanics for self-funding don't exist in this law's deconstructed form.

And when employers start downsizing Obama will make up some fantastic excuse the MSM will propagate, no doubt.

Of course it is, but the MSM (most of them) are celebrating Obama's "Mission Accomplished" with no apparent recollection of the last president who celebrated too early.

It still remains that nothing Obama says can be regarded as the truth.

That's just how he rolls...

OK. I tried to be PC in my previous post, but Obamacare is a complete, absolute, failure. How many people have just "checked the box", so they dont have to pay the penalty. Only M-or-on would think the jury is anywhere near out on this debacle. BOZOS run our our government and BOZOS run our press. I wonder if my post will make it through the 1st amendment sensors at the DP?

Here's the problem: the lack of real data. How many people signed up that didn't already have coverage, but had their coverage cancelled? How many people that signed up that actually have paid for their policies? 7 million, or whatever that number is, is not nearly enough to consider this anywhere near a success. Not to mention that Obama has unilaterally invalidated the law by postponing the requirements for people to comply. This whole thing is a joke. The relatively healthy people that are supposed to sign up to spread the risk aren't doing it, and because of Obama, they wont be required to. Of course, the media has no intention of holding Obama's feet to the fire because they have lost all credibility, especially when it comes to reporting the facts. They have become cheerleaders for our worthless president, and do not have the guts to report the truth. Our country is in real trouble.

The next announcement from the Liar-in-Chief will be the insurance industry tax-payer-funded bailout, since the mechanics for self-funding don't exist in this law's deconstructed form.

And when employers start downsizing Obama will make up some fantastic excuse the MSM will propagate, no doubt.

The jury will remain out until we get some real and hard numbers. So far, its been 110% lies from this administration. Based on what commmon sense dictates, this fiasco has been an absolute failure so far.

BillTheCatz wrote:The jury will remain out until we get some real and hard numbers. So far, its been 110% lies from this administration. Based on what commmon sense dictates, this fiasco has been an absolute failure so far.

The Obama administration will continue to plea the fifth, because everything they say might say will incriminate them.

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Oct 11 1798John Adams (Nation's 2nd President)

Enrollment numbers are in, and despite disastrous tech problems early on, the Affordable Care Act has cleared its first crucial hurdle.

So, since Ocare was proclaimed as solving the problem of uninsured by insuring them, how many uninsured were there before Ocare and how many are there now?

Numbers being in should make these figures available so why do they seem so difficult to find from any official source?

Or are the numbers either not realy in or not supporting the claims of its cheerleading section?

Then there are all the other problems with it not being discussed here, ranging from its forced nature to its economic viability and the bureaucratic control over who gets what treatments and when they do if they do. Those are the real issues, the insured/uninsured numbers just indicating how badly it has failed at its claimed purpose when it was being rammed through with no opposition or input allowed.

"The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide." (Barack Obama August 21, 2010)

The problem here is that even after all the failures of Obamacare, these boneheads STILL won't admit what a failure it is because that would be admitting they were wrong about Obama and that their whole political philosophy of Big Government solutions is just plain wrong. Hopefully the paper will get bought by a conservative and we won't have to put up with the outright lies and spin offered up to Coloradoans every day.

Enrollment numbers are in, and despite disastrous tech problems early on, the Affordable Care Act has cleared its first crucial hurdle.

These numbers are from the gang that told ALL of us

"if we like our insurance we can keep, and if we like our doctor we can keep them, PERIOD."

The DP board is simply follow the pied piper as he plays his flute.

I don't think the numbers are the numbers, but I'll play along with the DP board. OBAMAcare has cleared its first hurdle, OK. Then the DP board should encourage all the Democrats, especially Mark Udall to write a little to Obama and have him wave ALL the delays and wavers. With these number why the need for Obama and the Democrats to wait 3 years to fully implement the law? FULLY IMPLEMENT OBAMAcare by May 1st.

The Obama administration, as well as the corrupt mass media, is celebrating numbers to a law at doesn't exist. The OBAMAcare law that was passed by every Democrat isn't the law that these number represents.

Where is Udall? I haven't heard or seen a press conference with Mark Udall expressing his delight with the OBAMAcare numbers.

Then ask yourself if we can believe this 7.1 million figure given the record of prevarication the White House has run up on O'Care. "If you like your 7.1 million enrollees you can keep ..." well, you know the rest.

BillTheCatz wrote:The jury will remain out until we get some real and hard numbers. So far, its been 110% lies from this administration. Based on what commmon sense dictates, this fiasco has been an absolute failure so far.

It occurs to me that it depends a lot on how "success" is defined. If the goal was to make health care more affordable and available, then O'Care is clearly a failure. If the goal was for government to exert control over a sixth of the US economy it's been a sweeping success.

If you want to see what it looks like when the government runs everything, visit an Indian Reservation.

What a stupid article. How can you judge the success of something that has barely left the starting line and has been nothing but a waiver/schedule postponement fiasco to date?

At this point all we know for sure is that it cost nearly $1000 for every new sign-up, and that those who had non-subsidized private insurance are now searching for new doctors and paying higher premiums/deductibles.

You cannot reasonably do an assessment until 2015 at the earliest, as that is when the employer mandate begins, the higher non-compliance penalties kick in, and the federal subsidies for state medicaid payments go away.

What? 7 million people who were duped in to signing with pipe dream lies and threats of the IRS thugs with penalties of noncompliance. But lets think about the Government numbers of 7 million people who signed up while we around 325 million people living in the U.S. Then you have to consider that Obama didn't have his web site dudes include the pay for your policy part yet. So how can this be a success? When people signed up but no hospital or doctor knows if they will get paid if they provide a service for the Obama-care sham...

Of course it is, but the MSM (most of them) are celebrating Obama's "Mission Accomplished" with no apparent recollection of the last president who celebrated too early.

It still remains that nothing Obama says can be regarded as the truth.

That's just how he rolls...

Here's the problem: the lack of real data. How many people signed up that didn't already have coverage, but had their coverage cancelled? How many people that signed up that actually have paid for their policies? 7 million, or whatever that number is, is not nearly enough to consider this anywhere near a success. Not to mention that Obama has unilaterally invalidated the law by postponing the requirements for people to comply. This whole thing is a joke. The relatively healthy people that are supposed to sign up to spread the risk aren't doing it, and because of Obama, they wont be required to. Of course, the media has no intention of holding Obama's feet to the fire because they have lost all credibility, especially when it comes to reporting the facts. They have become cheerleaders for our worthless president, and do not have the guts to report the truth. Our country is in real trouble.

The next announcement from the Liar-in-Chief will be the insurance industry tax-payer-funded bailout, since the mechanics for self-funding don't exist in this law's deconstructed form.

And when employers start downsizing Obama will make up some fantastic excuse the MSM will propagate, no doubt.

Employers already are downsizing, that is why the huge increase in part time and temporary jobs is being seen.

The "fantastic excuse" shows up in claims of improving jobs numbers in spite of the shrinking workforce participation rate caused by it.

"The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide." (Barack Obama August 21, 2010)

Of course it is, but the MSM (most of them) are celebrating Obama's "Mission Accomplished" with no apparent recollection of the last president who celebrated too early.

It still remains that nothing Obama says can be regarded as the truth.

That's just how he rolls...

Here's the problem: the lack of real data. How many people signed up that didn't already have coverage, but had their coverage cancelled? How many people that signed up that actually have paid for their policies? 7 million, or whatever that number is, is not nearly enough to consider this anywhere near a success. Not to mention that Obama has unilaterally invalidated the law by postponing the requirements for people to comply. This whole thing is a joke. The relatively healthy people that are supposed to sign up to spread the risk aren't doing it, and because of Obama, they wont be required to. Of course, the media has no intention of holding Obama's feet to the fire because they have lost all credibility, especially when it comes to reporting the facts. They have become cheerleaders for our worthless president, and do not have the guts to report the truth. Our country is in real trouble.

The next announcement from the Liar-in-Chief will be the insurance industry tax-payer-funded bailout, since the mechanics for self-funding don't exist in this law's deconstructed form.

And when employers start downsizing Obama will make up some fantastic excuse the MSM will propagate, no doubt.

Employers already are downsizing, that is why the huge increase in part time and temporary jobs is being seen.

The "fantastic excuse" shows up in claims of improving jobs numbers in spite of the shrinking workforce participation rate caused by it.

This garbage has taught us one thing for sure. Question everything since the lies never stop...